This family of 10 rockets, here represented by scale models, is NASA's arsenal for some
250 major launchings during the next decade. Dr. T. Keith Glennan, the space agency's
Administrator, and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator, survey the line-up. Dr.
Glennan directs the agency while on leave from the presidency of Case Institute of Tech
nology; Dr. Dryden headed the distinguished National Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics, absorbed by NASA. Nova and Saturn, now under study and development, will
dwarf all known rockets. Nova will stand 220 feet high, 70 feet taller than Saturn.
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another informed, debate and weigh various
ideas, and make recommendations to project
officials. Many of their ideas have been
adopted. For example, the astronauts sug
gested the capsule's large observation port and
improvements in the entrance hatch.
Engineers also have sought advice from the
seven men on cockpit instrumentation, in
cluding development of an ingenious model
of the earth that shows the capsule's position
at all times. This little globe, marked for
longitude, latitude, topography, and major
cities, revolves inside the instrument panel.
The astronaut views it through a window,
just as if he were actually seeing the earth
beneath him. A bull's-eye sight on the win
dow pinpoints his position, and other
markings show where he would land if he
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